Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in a jail was taken from it by a mob on the night of July 8, 1903, and killed, according to a short item in the Hot Springs Weekly Star. The paper's account says he was the man accused of killing John L. Phillips, a one-armed Confederate veteran, and that other prisoners were also taken from the jail. The scanned text is too garbled to confirm the place, his name, or how the jailers responded. The account of his guilt comes from the newspaper and is not established here.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Hot Springs Weekly Star reports that a mob took a man from a jail and lynched him.
Reported by: Hot Springs Weekly Star (reporters).